This week we talk with one of our favorite returning guests, Julie Tran Deily! Like Denise, Julie has also recently been diagnosed with ADHD. Suddenly, a lot of things started making sense to her. She’s been researching ways to make her life easier and is with us to share what she’s learned. Her new website drops next week; be sure to check it out! creativedatanerd.com, and @creativedatanerd on Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok. Julie is a former software engineer turned full-time freelancer and bl...
Aug 13, 2023•56 min•Season 4Ep. 238
Denise talks with Kitty Morse about her most recent cookbook, Bitter Sweet: A Wartime journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France. Award-winning author Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca, Morocco, of a French mother and British father. She emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. While studying for her Master’s Degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kitty catered Moroccan diffas, or banquets, and went on to teach the intricacies of Moroccan cuisine in cooking schoo...
Aug 06, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 237
Denise tells us about working with her idol, Marcella Hazan, when she was a culinary student in San Francisco. Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women. SHOW LINKS: Website Join our Facebook group Follow our Facebook page Instagram Episode archive Email us: WomenBeyond@icloud.com...
Jul 23, 2023•12 min•Season 4Ep. 236
Linda Skeens, author of Recipes and Tips from America’s Favorite County Fair Champion, is with us this week to talk about the joy she finds in cooking, crafts, canning, and family. Last summer at the Virginia Kentucky State Fair, one woman won first, second and third place for best cookies. She also swept all three awards for candy and for savory bread. And won the blue ribbon for cake, pie, brownie, sweet bread, and best overall baked goods (that was strawberry fudge.) But it didn't end there. ...
Jul 16, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 235
Certified Professional Organizer C.Lee Cawley is with us this week to talk about her current mission to bring order to cluttered desks and overwhelmed minds with her signature course “The Paper Cleanse”. Join the webinar waitlist at: https://www.cleecawley.com/enroll C.Lee teaches people how to declutter their paper piles and curate their frustrating files for long-lasting paper organization, without scanning a thing! Through her adroit advice and insightful instruction, C.Lee has transformed bo...
Jul 09, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 234
This week Denise talks about working with her ADHD. EPISODE LINKS: ADHD Workbook for Women by Sarah Davis and Linda Hill Anyone Can Improve Their Focus, Huberman Lab Podcast #37 Behavior: Hail to the Hyperactive Hunter, Time Magazine, July 18, 1994 Behavior: Attention Deficient Disorder: Life in Overdrive, Time Magazine, July 18, 1984 Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she...
Jul 02, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 233
Liz Williams, author of Nana's Creole Italian Table, a cookbook about the Sicilian community in New Orleans, is with us to chat about growing up in New Orleans. Always fascinated by the way the lure of nutmeg and peppercorns motivated the exploration of the world, Liz Williams was lucky to be born into a family of Sicilian heritage in New Orleans. She grew up eating in two great food traditions. She is a founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum and of the National Food & Beverage F...
Jun 22, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 232
Virginia Willis and Denise chat about gaining weight, losing weight, eating healthier, and the apps Weight Watchers and Noom. Virginia has a new booklet out, Fresh Start: My Real Life Daily Guide to Healthy Eating and Weight Loss . Watch Virginia’s show, Cookbooks with Virginia, on her Facebook page and on her YouTube channel. If you miss the live show you can always watch it later on IGTV . Follow and enter to win a free copy of the cookbook of the week every Friday morning on Instagram . You c...
Jun 18, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 141
Certified Professional Organizer C.Lee Cawley (there are fewer than 400 worldwide) is with us this week! Through her adroit advice and insightful instruction, C.Lee has transformed both the living spaces and personal lives of her thousands of followers, clients, and students on five continents. C.Lee's current mission is to bring order to cluttered desks and overwhelmed minds with her signature course “The Paper Cleanse”. In it, she teaches people how to declutter their paper piles and curate th...
Jun 11, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 231
Pat Greenberg is back for another info-packed episode! She talks to us about how denial, fear, anger, and fatigue prevent us from making changes for the better and sap our self-esteem. PAT’S LINKS: Website: https://www.patriciagreenberg.com Email Pat a question: the fitnessgourmet@mac.com Buy Pat’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Patricia-Greenberg/e/B001IR1E2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefitnessgourmet YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatriciaGreenberg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com...
Jun 04, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 167
This week Denise continues her chats with Rev. Pamela Nelson-Munson. Pamela tells us, “People are more involved, creative, happy, and take ownership when given encouragement and free rein to follow their bliss.” She also tells us how she came to have a commercial convection oven in all her parishes. Pam and Denise suggest that all of us write the timeline of our life so we can see just how much we’ve accomplished. Pamela’s goals for retirement: Write my father’s biography. Compile our family coo...
May 28, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 230
This week Denise chats with her old friend, Rev. Pamela Nelson-Munson. They talk about how neither one was “good in school,” and how they eventually found their places, how a pastor is like a mistress, and taking a break to go to culinary school. She says, “Thinking if I worked hard, was polite, smiled, and wore deodorant that everyone would play nice in the sandbox.” Rev. Pam shares with us some wisdom and some things she’d like to be able to do over: Do-overs: Not be so quick to please as a de...
May 21, 2023•42 min•Season 4Ep. 229
This week Denise shares her travel tips for making trips easier! Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women. ----more---- SHOW LINKS Website: https://womenbeyond.podbean.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenBeyond/ Follow our Facebook page: https://www....
May 14, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 228
Our friend Liz Pollock is back with us to talk about the wonderful world of culinary ephemera. You know, all those fantastic old pamphlets and booklets that appliance manufacturers produced to show women how to use their fancy new labor-saving appliances. Stoves and toasters! Fryers and broilers! Blenders and microwaves! Liz has a talk coming up at the Mark Taper Auditorium on May 13th on American Ingenuity and Innovation: Kitchen Appliance Instruction Manuals. Details on the Culinary Historians...
May 07, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 227
Our guest this week is Debra Freeman. Debra has written for outlets such as Plate Magazine, Epicurious, Garden and Gun, Pit Magazine, Gravy, Southern Grit Magazine, and Gastro Obscura, has had her work featured in Huffington Post and The New York Times, and has done cultural commentary for BBC Radio and other international outlets. Freeman writes about the intersection of race, culture, and food. Read Why Yellow Cake is so Important to Black Celebrations, along with some other pieces by Debra (l...
Apr 30, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 166
Michele Jones is back! This time we talk about how she believes the best restaurants are so much more than places that just sell food; they are community meeting places. We discuss the importance of making everyone who walks through the door feel like a regular, being kind, giving back by aligning your business with charities that share your values (generating valuable earned PR), Keanu Reeves, Drew Barrymore, and Molly Ringwald. Michele is all about great people, great food, and great community...
Apr 20, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 176
Ramin Ganeshram is with us this week to talk about her brilliant book, The General’s Cook. She dedicated 7 years to researching and writing this intriguing and suspenseful novel and continues to pursue leads into the elusive life of America’s first celebrity chef, Hercules Posey. The time: 1793. The place: Philadelphia. Hercules, President George Washington’s chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding gene...
Apr 16, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 178
The Dragon herself, Crescent Dragonwagon, is with us this week! Our conversation jumps around like “like a cat on a june bug,” which makes it all that much more fascinating. She talks self-compassion, writing, and growing up the child of writers. Crescent has a special offer on her Self-Compassion 101 class for our listeners: https://dragonwagon.com/women-beyond-age/ CRESCENT’S LINKS: Self-Compassion 101 video: https://fb.watch/aBHT81nmdF/ Website: https://dragonwagon.com Books: https://www.amaz...
Apr 09, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 168
The wonderful Nancie McDermott is with us this week. We talk cakes and anti-racism. Excerpted from Nancie’s Anti-Racism Facebook page: “I'm Nancie McDermott, a white woman born and raised in North Carolina. I started this group as a place to look at how powerfully and stealthily racism and anti-Blackness are woven into our systems and institutions…We can move toward creating a place of justice and safety; of compassion and respect, of equity with opportunity for everyone. Knowing the truth can s...
Apr 02, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 187
Chef Tanya Holland is with us this week to talk about her journey to becoming Executive Chef and Owner of the internationally renowned and beloved Brown Sugar Kitchen restaurant, in Oakland, California. She is acclaimed for her inventive take on modern soul food, as well as comfort classics. Her newest book, Tanya Holland’s California Soul, features recipes influenced by the historical migration of African American families, including Tanya’s own, using key ingredients, techniques, and tradition...
Mar 25, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 226
Gal-pal of the podcast, Pat Greenberg, is with us to decipher the confusing information around healthy eating. She brings it back to the basics for an effortless approach to having a healthy kitchen. This episode is for anyone who wants to lose some weight, get more fit, or just to be healthier and feel better. Below are suggestions for healthier eating using common food items most of have on hand or can easily get. Making small changes are easier, and they add up to success! No matter what meal...
Mar 19, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 225
Seattle Money Coach Mikelann tells us “Beauty makes me feel like I am really living and savoring my life. So why would this be less true in our money and financial life? I want my financial life to be beautiful as well. I want to bring beauty to my money! Otherwise, it is a place of clutter and disorder (and conveys an internal message that I don’t care or honor my money—so really—since I haven’t made it a nice home, why should it stick around??!) Without beauty, my money life feels like that ba...
Mar 12, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 224
Raghavan Iyer calls himself “a tenacious bitch,” not letting his terminal diagnosis and endless rounds of chemotherapy stop him from completing his last book, On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor that Seduced the World . If you are lucky enough to know Raghavan, you have been blessed. If you don’t know him, it’s well worth your time to search out more information about him. And to learn more about curry from his books! Raghavan has a GoFundMe campaign Revival Foods Project: Global Comforts tha...
Mar 05, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 223
Agent Extraordinaire Sally Ekus tells us that the better your cookbook proposal, the bigger the advance. Does your proposal pass the “toddler test?” Listen in to find out what this magical test is! Sally is the lead agent and co-owner at The Ekus Group, a full-service culinary agency specializing in Literary and Talent representation. She represents a wide range of culinary, health, wellness, and lifestyle talent, from first-time cookbook authors to seasoned chefs, RDs, professional food writers...
Feb 26, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 222
Cristina Potters is back with us for another information-packed episode, this time we talk about corn! Corn tops rice and wheat for the most produced crop in the world. Corn is over 7000 years old and originated in central Mexico. Cristina gives us a glimpse into the world of corn! Cristina is a Chicago native, arrived in Mexico in 1981. After several years as a social worker in the Tijuana city jail, she lived in Mexico City, then in a tiny village in Michoacán, and subsequently resided for man...
Feb 19, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 221
Cristina Potters, a Chicago native, arrived in Mexico in 1981. After several years as a social worker in the Tijuana city jail, she lived in Mexico City, then in a tiny village in Michoacán, and subsequently resided for many years in the state of Jalisco, including in Guadalajara. Long a permanent fixture in Morelia, Michoacán, she holds dual Mexican and United States citizenship. Cristina learned the cuisines of the central highlands of Mexico from the source: the mayoras (extraordinary older h...
Feb 12, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 220
Linda Civitello is back with us this week to talk about her award-winning book, Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking. American women in the 1800s were tied to their kitchens, having to make beer to make yeast so they could bake enough bread for their family to survive. (Bread was more than just a staple, people used to eat a pound a day!) It’s from these women looking for shortcuts that baking powder’s development began. It’s a surprising story involving presi...
Feb 05, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 219
Linda Civitello, author of the award-winning book Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People, is with us this week to talk about how history, food and culture shape our diet. Linda developed the curriculum and taught history of food at culinary schools in southern California, and speaks frequently on a wide range of food history topics. Her book is used to teach food history in culinary schools. Linda has spoken at Harvard University, appeared on television on Bizarre Foods and on the BBC...
Jan 29, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 218
Pat Greenberg is back for part 2 of our downsizing extravaganza! This time we’re discussing downsizing our own living spaces, downsizing the amount of unnecessary stuff that surrounds us, finding happiness in our homes, the importance of having a network of family and friends, and including your passions in your life. Ushering in a new era of bite sized livable health, nutrition and fitness solutions, Pat practices what she preaches. A working wife and mother, she has 30 years of experience as a...
Jan 22, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 217
One of our favorite guests, Pat Greenberg, is back with us this week is back with us this week to talk about what to do with a lifetime of stuff when parents pass away. It’s difficult on so many levels. Have you gone through this? How did you handle it? Ushering in a new era of bite sized livable health, nutrition and fitness solutions, Pat practices what she preaches. A working wife and mother, she has 30 years of experience as a Certified Nutritionist, Chef, and Wellness educator. She lives a ...
Jan 15, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 216
